Actually, they are Homo Sapiens. Homo Sapiens Neandertalensis. Last Anthro class I took they were considered "Archaic Homo Sapiens" There is some speculation based on facial analysis that tries to place them on the family tree as a separate species, but I would say our population of complete Neanderthals skulls to be to limited to be of any real use in this sort of analysis.
In the 1800s, members of the royal society had some Mammoth steaks from a frozen beast found in the permafrost in Siberia. They said it tasted like chicken.
Well, perhaps you should start with the old "It's alpha software" Then, move on to how the hell did I get Windows 7 to run with 64M of ram. Then think about why you are using Netscape in 2008. Then think about the fact that Vista can copy a 17M file from one folder to another in about 2 minutes on my 1.8Ghz X2 Turion with 2G of ram. I call BS.
Being Canadian, We are too close, geographically and economically, to not want what is in your best interests, as they are generally intertwined and interdependent with our best interests. As our largest trading partner, if you are in economic trouble, the odds are, so are we. Now if we only had the balls and the foresight to know what is in OUR best interests, then we would be getting somewhere
"And spell check, for f*@&s sake."
I'm sorry, could you spell check that second last word? I didn't understand it, and I have an inane need to point out other peoples mistakes to increase my own sense of self worth.
Do all of your peripherals from 1999 still work with OS X? I doubt it, if you want to blame someone for the lack of drivers for your shit, blame the hardware manufacturers, they are the ones who didn't write the drivers.
"No, it's almost certainly Vista's problem. If I swap the drive out for a dualboot XP/Linux drive, both OSes work perfectly (though admittedly the Linux drive uses ndiswrappers, not native)."
Could still be the drivers, Not Vista, lots of companies have dropped the ball on updating their drivers for Vista, the situation is better now, but by no means perfect. XPs drivers are older, more mature, and generally debugged because of 5 or 6 YEARS of updates.
If it was me, I would have tried another wireless card by now, but you may find that too much like work.
2G is enough, I have a dell Inspiron 1525 with 2G of Ram and it runs great. I put XP on it for comparison, and don't really see much of a difference, other than XP uses a bit more of the battery. I use the laptop for VS 2005 development, websurfing, email, Office stuff, graphics, just about everything.
If it's functional, and works well, how is it disgusting? I've tried FreeNAS, it seemed to work well for me, prob ably a configuration setting for you NIC perhaps.
Maybe they just want to reuse code? Using operating facilities to do useful work instead of reinventing the wheel makes sense, and it's just good programming practice. Maybe that tinfoils on a bit tight, not everything is a conspiracy.
Of course, with the laptop turned off, everything else would not be drawing power, except for maybe the harddrive. USB, Optical drives, the large screen, all would be off, probably just the small display and the secondary? processor and harddrive. so maybe power requirements can be that low. and with vista's ability to use flash as cache, maybe that is where it is drawing it's data from, at this point it is hard to tell
No, you're wrong, it is more like screwing a thousand people unprotected and then complaining when you get syphilis. The tools are there, the info is there, take the time to learn how to use the equipment that you are using. you don't just get into a car and drive it, so why can't people learn to use thier computers
If one of the benefits of running linux is better performance than Windows on older hardware, your suggestion nullifies that benefit, which would discourage all the people like me, who first tried it out by installing it on an old compaq 350 I had lying around.
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Actually, it makes people who are too cheap to pay for Windows, but to lazy or uninformed to use OSS less desirable, not Windows.
Most likely the 150 extensions and plugins? That has been the cause of most of Firefox's slowness, in my experience.
and isn't that what God is doing, giving us the tools to do that?
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If you can interbreed, you are not a separate species.
Actually, they are Homo Sapiens. Homo Sapiens Neandertalensis. Last Anthro class I took they were considered "Archaic Homo Sapiens" There is some speculation based on facial analysis that tries to place them on the family tree as a separate species, but I would say our population of complete Neanderthals skulls to be to limited to be of any real use in this sort of analysis.
In the 1800s, members of the royal society had some Mammoth steaks from a frozen beast found in the permafrost in Siberia. They said it tasted like chicken.
Well, perhaps you should start with the old "It's alpha software" Then, move on to how the hell did I get Windows 7 to run with 64M of ram. Then think about why you are using Netscape in 2008. Then think about the fact that Vista can copy a 17M file from one folder to another in about 2 minutes on my 1.8Ghz X2 Turion with 2G of ram. I call BS.
Holy fuck, I just don't know what to say...other than only an AC would post something so intensely offensive.
Being Canadian, We are too close, geographically and economically, to not want what is in your best interests, as they are generally intertwined and interdependent with our best interests. As our largest trading partner, if you are in economic trouble, the odds are, so are we. Now if we only had the balls and the foresight to know what is in OUR best interests, then we would be getting somewhere
Severe limitations like superior performance and less overhead?
"And spell check, for f*@&s sake." I'm sorry, could you spell check that second last word? I didn't understand it, and I have an inane need to point out other peoples mistakes to increase my own sense of self worth.
MS has never sold a desktop, it is the most expensive, the cheapest and the prettiest.
Do all of your peripherals from 1999 still work with OS X? I doubt it, if you want to blame someone for the lack of drivers for your shit, blame the hardware manufacturers, they are the ones who didn't write the drivers.
"No, it's almost certainly Vista's problem. If I swap the drive out for a dualboot XP/Linux drive, both OSes work perfectly (though admittedly the Linux drive uses ndiswrappers, not native)." Could still be the drivers, Not Vista, lots of companies have dropped the ball on updating their drivers for Vista, the situation is better now, but by no means perfect. XPs drivers are older, more mature, and generally debugged because of 5 or 6 YEARS of updates. If it was me, I would have tried another wireless card by now, but you may find that too much like work.
2G is enough, I have a dell Inspiron 1525 with 2G of Ram and it runs great. I put XP on it for comparison, and don't really see much of a difference, other than XP uses a bit more of the battery. I use the laptop for VS 2005 development, websurfing, email, Office stuff, graphics, just about everything.
If it's functional, and works well, how is it disgusting? I've tried FreeNAS, it seemed to work well for me, prob ably a configuration setting for you NIC perhaps.
They are using a Heisenberg compensator.
Maybe they just want to reuse code? Using operating facilities to do useful work instead of reinventing the wheel makes sense, and it's just good programming practice. Maybe that tinfoils on a bit tight, not everything is a conspiracy.
Of course, with the laptop turned off, everything else would not be drawing power, except for maybe the harddrive. USB, Optical drives, the large screen, all would be off, probably just the small display and the secondary? processor and harddrive. so maybe power requirements can be that low. and with vista's ability to use flash as cache, maybe that is where it is drawing it's data from, at this point it is hard to tell
No, you're wrong, it is more like screwing a thousand people unprotected and then complaining when you get syphilis. The tools are there, the info is there, take the time to learn how to use the equipment that you are using. you don't just get into a car and drive it, so why can't people learn to use thier computers
Doesn't take large balls to be an ass when you're anonymous, eh?
You're right, it was a while ago. the goal is WinXP/2000 compatibility
Talk about condescending, I guess there is more than one fucking idiot around, eh?
If one of the benefits of running linux is better performance than Windows on older hardware, your suggestion nullifies that benefit, which would discourage all the people like me, who first tried it out by installing it on an old compaq 350 I had lying around.